{"id":21169,"date":"2026-04-11T05:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eliot-engel-former-house-foreign-affairs-chair-dies-at-79\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:20:16","slug":"eliot-engel-former-house-foreign-affairs-chair-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/eliot-engel-former-house-foreign-affairs-chair-dies-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliot Engel, former House Foreign Affairs chair, dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has died at the age of 79, according to a statement shared on social media by a family member. Engel&rsquo;s family said that the former congressman, who represented parts of New York City and its suburbs for more than three decades&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5826429-engels-legacy-public-service\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has died at the age of 79, according to a statement shared on social media by a family member. Engel&rsquo;s family said that the former congressman, who represented parts of New York City and its suburbs for more than three decades&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}